Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she inherits her great-grandmother’s house. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns home. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother’s possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. Inside, she discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these documents and photographs. As her own obsession grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. Undeterred, Gus is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent family’s devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map.
In this eerily riveting thriller—the follow-up to the international bestseller Dark August—Gus Monet becomes dangerously entangled with a powerful family whose wealth and success are built on dark and deadly secrets. After solving her mother's murder, Augusta (Gus) Monet thought she was finally settled. But it’s not to be. Soon after moving into The Ambassador Court, she meets Poppy Honeywell, her reclusive elderly neighbor who wanders about in a pink kimono like an aging Hollywood starlet and who happens to be a descendant of the Mutchmores, one of the city's founding families. The family have been hiding a treacherous secret for decades—one they are willing to sacrifice anything—and anyone—to keep buried. Little do they know, that’s just the kind of secret Gus can’t resist.
Three years after a devastating disappearance during a camping trip, Gus Monet and her young daughter, Bly, are drawn back to Prince Edward County when new evidence emerges that turns the cold case red hot. Searching for answers, the pair vow to expose whoever went to deadly lengths to destroy their lives. Told in the compelling voice of young Bly, this edge-of-your-seat thriller culminates in a heart-pounding, soul-crushing finale. Infused with vivid summer imagery, eerie abandoned places, and sinister small town secrets, Buried Road is the story of a young girl led ever closer to danger by her mother’s unwavering resolve to uncover the truth. Yet it’s this very resolve that might, in the end, ensure their survival.
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